User talk:Marc Dos Santos

Hello Marc Dos Santos. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Tgeairn (talk) 17:13, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Huh?
Why would you change the correct team names (names that actually link to Wikipedia articles) back to the wrong team names (at least as far as Wikipedia is concerned)??? WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:26, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Ownership
You do not own the Marc Dos Santos article. The changes I have made are according to the Manual of Style and are intended to improve the article. Please stop undoing the improvements. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:29, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

COI Notice Board
Your actions on Marc Dos Santos have been brought to the attention of the Conflict of Interest notice board. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:33, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Real Name
Hello! Marc, we have a policy here at Wikipedia about usernames called WP:REALNAME that states, "Do not register a username that includes the name of an identifiable living person unless it is your real name." Is your real name Marc Dos Santos? If is it, we'll have to mark the article you have been editing as having a conflict of interest. If not, you'll have to change your username or it will be indefinitely blocked.  Ol Yeller Talktome 19:41, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Copyrighted photos
You need to stop uploading newspaper photos to Wikimedia Commons. See your Talk page there. Those pictures are copyrighted and cannot be used. Please stop or you will be blocked. JohnInDC (talk) 12:04, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

COI again
Seriously, stop editing Marc Dos Santos, in which you have an obvious conflict of interest. If you find any errors on the page, you are free to point them out on the talk page, but you should not edit this article any further. Given that most of your edits are not even improving the article, further involvement in the page may result in being blocked for disruptive editing. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:47, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

A few useful links to help explain things
Wikipedia doesn't always make the most sense to new users and I figured you might appreciate a few links to policies and guidelines that will help you understand what has been happening to the page you have been editing. First off, here is some material on conflicts of interest. The gist is, go lightly. A sort of subset of COI is autobiography, and I'm linking that here: Autobiography. You should also understand the rules about the need for proper sources in Wikipedia articles - something may be "true" but if there isn't a source by which the fact can be verified, it can't appear here. Those three links are really just a fraction of the sorts of things editors have to keep in mind when going forward, but they should get you started at least. Perhaps you will find it interesting to edit articles other than Marc Dos Santos, eh? JohnInDC (talk) 19:42, 22 September 2011 (UTC)